Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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